Results for "Wayne Escoffery"

New York Jazz Academy Summer Jazz Intensives, NYC Music Camps For Adults And Teens, Now Enrolling

June 12, 2013

MAKE THIS SUMMER YOUR HOTTEST YET NEW YORK, NY: New York City’s newest music school is offering affordable Summer Jazz Intensives to adults and teens who can make it to their exciting new space on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. New York Jazz Academy, recently featured on NBC’s Today in New York, CNBC, and CBS ...

Evening Of Jazz For Newtown Benefit Concert on April 12th

April 4, 2013

April 12, 2013 7:30pm-9:30pm Newark Academy Auditorium 91 South Orange Avenue Livingston, NJ 07039 The Evening of Jazz has been an annual concert at Newark Academy to showcase it’s numerous jazz ensembles. This year we are dedicating our concert to the families of Sandyhook and the Greene family. We will have three ...

Jazz Musician of the Day: Wayne Escoffery

February 23, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Wayne Escoffery's birthday today! Since moving to New York City in 2000, tenor saxophonist Wayne Escoffery has become one of the Jazz world’s most talented rising stars and in-demand sidemen. He began his professional NY career touring and recording with The Eric Reed Septet. In 2001 he became a steady member ...

Nostalgia in Times Square

Featuring the music of Wayne Escoffery
Duration: 8:32
February 23, 2013

The Only Son Of One

By Wayne Escoffery

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: World of the Bardo; Banishment of the Lost Spirit; Perilous Desires; The Only Son of One; If I Am, Who You Are; Selena’s Song; Presumed Innocence; Colour Spectrum; Two Souls.

New York Jazz Academy Summer Jazz Intensives, NYC Music Camps For Adults And Teens, Now Enrolling

June 14, 2012

MAKE THIS SUMMER YOUR HOTTEST YET NEW YORK, NY: New York City’s newest music school is offering affordable Summer Jazz Intensives to adults and teens who can make it to their exciting new space on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. New York Jazz Academy, recently featured on NBC’s Today in New York, CNBC, and CBS ...

Wayne Escoffery: The Only Son of One

by Raul d'Gama Rose
May 30, 2012

Not since the works of bassist Charles Mingus and saxophonist John Coltrane has there been music so charged with emotion and so engulfed in spirituality as The Only Son of One, an album that bleeds with raw sentiment as it bares the soul of its young saxophonist and composer, Wayne Escoffery, and ultimately brings much catharsis ...

Ben Riley: Grown Folks Music

by Raul d'Gama Rose
May 27, 2012

Ben Riley is best-described as a drummer who has always been the epitome of great taste, elegance and almost certainly possessed of a higher musical intelligence. There is no better recommendation for this than the fact that Thelonious Monk hired him as a drummer, but if further proof were requested , then all that needs doing ...

Enter the "Sunnyside Records 2-CD" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

May 11, 2012

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Sunnyside Records 2-CD giveaway contest starting today. Each winner will receive Wayne Escoffery's The Only Son of One and Johnathan Blake's The Eleventh Hour. We'll select THREE winners at the conclusion of the contest on June 12th. Click here to enter the contest (Following Wayne Escoffery at ...

Wayne Escoffery Honored In New Haven

March 29, 2012

Articulate, well-mannered and courtly, Wayne Escoffery, one of today's finest, most exciting jazz saxophonists, speaks softly and creates passionate but never ego-driven music. Matinee idol handsome and a regal 6-foot-4 presence—non-musical attributes that have landed him modeling and acting gigs including bit parts on TV commercials for Grey Goose vodka and Mitsubishi cars—the London-born musician of ...